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Chicago’s Loyola U. enhances shuttle service

CHICAGO — Loyola University unveiled the Rambler Route, a pilot van service to provide students with transportation to a number of popular drop-off locations determined by student phone calls received by the university’s 8-Ride transportation service, Loyola Phoenix reported.

The goal of the service is to alleviate some of the congestion created at some of the more popular 8-Ride drop-off locations. For the full story, click here.

The program will focus on increasing access to opportunities; improving multi-modal planning and shared use of infrastructure; advancing innovation and smart cities; and developing data, models and tools.

The university’s $27 million collaboration with Frontt Capital Management, a Shenzhen-based investment firm, will establish a joint research center for intelligent vehicles at the university and a robotics laboratory on North Campus.